Previous studies have reported that chromosome synteny in Lepidoptera has been well conserved, yet the number of haploid chromosomes varies widely from 5 to 223. Here we report the genome (393 Mb) of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia; Nymphalidae), a widely recognized model species in metapopulation biology and eco-evolutionary research, which has the putative ancestral karyot...

flower morphology of ten fritillaria species of subgenera theresia and fritillaria growing wild in iran is studied using seventy morphological characters. qualitative and quantitative datasets separated taxa into subgenera, sectional and groups. three enigmatic species f. caucasica, f. zagrica (endemic to zagros mountains) and f. pinardii (recently reported from zagros mountains) appeared as cl...

The Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) in Finland feeds on the plants Plantago lanceolata and Veronica spicata. These two plant species are distributed heterogeneously and both vary spatially and temporally in iridoid glycoside concentrations. We investigated the associations of plant species and iridoid glycoside (aucubin and catalpol) concentrations with weight, development rate...

O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a ação da luz e de tratamentos térmicos pré-germinativos na embebição sementes Alcantarea imperialis. As foram dispostas em unidades experimentais 25 sem desinfestação prévia submetidas altas baixas temperaturas à ausência presença luz. Os resultados mostraram germinação das A. imperialis somente luz, apresentando diferenças absorção água entre os ao longo...

Complete List of Authors: Mick, Inge; Imperial College, Myers, Jim; Imperial College, Stokes, Paul; King's College, ; Imperial College, Erritzoe, David; Imperial College, Colasanti, Alessandro; Imperial College, ; King's College, ; Imanova Ltd., Bowden-Jones, Henrietta; National Problem Gambling Clinic, Clark, Luke; University of Cambridge, Gunn, Roger; Imperial College, ; Imanova Ltd., Rabiner...

which had Galileo among its members. He commissioned artists to record plants, birds and animals for his museum and a pictorial encyclopaedia that attempted to understand and classify both the natural and ‘man-made’ world. Alexander Marshal’s floral paintings were compiled at a time when the cultivation of gardens had become a pursuit of scholars and collectors, keenly interested in exotic spec...